Read the text below, then decide on the best word to complete each gap in the text.
ENGLISH IIN USE
Tasks include Word building, Open close, Multiple-choice close. Each text is followed by a number of questions for the equal points maximum. 1 point is removed for every mistake or missed answer.
Task 1
Read the first part of the text and use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form the word that fits in the gap in the same line.
| 1. | Child labour has been a black chapter in … saga ever since history began. | HUMANITY |
| 2. | Its evil effects were first thrown into … by the Industrial Revolution in England. | PROMINENT |
| 3. | During the early days of …, pauper children worked under | INDUSTRIAL |
| 4. | … conditions in other parts of Europe and in the U.S. too. Progressive | HORROR |
| 5. | labour legislation and economic prosperity … combated this social evil. | SUCCESS |
| 6. | However, it still exists in most developing countries and India has the dubious … | DISTINCT |
| 7. | of … the largest child labour force in the world. | HARBOUR |
| 8. | Every year on November 14 Children’s Day is … with promises of a bright future | CELEBRITY |
| 9. | for children as … of tomorrow. But millions of them continue to | CITIZENSHIP |
| 10. | have a bleak … from which there seems to be no escape. | CHILDREN |
| 11. | From a childhood filled with … toil and-aver-gnawing hunger, they will progress | REWARD |
| 12. | to an equally … adulthood. And, as adults, they will in turn be forced by | MISERY |
| 13. | relentless … to send their children out to work. Thus goes the vicious circle. | POOR |
| 14. | The actual number of children who work … according to different ideas of what | VARIETY |
| 15. | exactly … child labour. Some surveys estimate it at over 17 million basing | CONSTITUTION |
| 16. | on the … of a child worker as a person below the age of 14 who is a | DEFINE |
| 17. | wage earner. Others, … a child labourer as “a person who has not | DESCRIPTION |
| 18. | … his/her 15th year of age and is working with or without wages | COMPLETION |
| 19. | on a …-time or full-time basis”, estimated the figure as close to 100 million. | PARTIAL |
Task 2
Read the rest of the text and fill in the missing words where necessary (prepositions, pronouns, articles, etc.).
Often children go to school but work (20) … their free time. During surveys these children might not be counted as they may have been away (21) … school. In the organized sector, since child labour is banned in (22) … number of industries, business owners (23) … every effort to conceal the fact that they employ children. More often, (24) … fear of losing their jobs, the children themselves are hesitant to (25) … that they are employed. Therefore all the census calculations can be very far off the mark.
It is obvious that child labour is all-pervasive. There is (26) … work such as cleaning, cooking and washing (27) … is considered unproductive and is unpaid. There is non-productive work, (28) … as gazing cattle, sowing, weeding or assisting parents in (29) … crafts, outside home as well.
In the organized sector children are (30) … found in small-scale industries (carpets, glass, diamond-cutting), mining, shipping, sweat-shops, shopping and commercial establishments even though child (31) … is banned in most of these. In fact, because of the prohibition which makes it (32) … children are denied any sort of protection from abuse!
Finally there are self-employed or street children who work (33) … shoeshine boys, newspaper or fruit vendors or beg (34) … a living. This group generally consists of those (35) … have run away from home, (36) … been abandoned or are orphaned.
Task 3
Read the text below, then decide on the best word to complete each gap in the text.
Now look here. Whatever your (37) … opinion about exams, there is no way you can avoid them. They are, (38) …, a necessary evil but very much a part of our lives. Tests and examinations are given to discover not only a student’s learning abilities but also to see how (39) … a particular subject has been learned.
In some classes, it is mandatory to (40) … in certain subjects like Russian, English and Maths. If you have not been studying throughout the year, then much (41) … time has been lost and there is nothing you can do about it. But do not panic. It is still not too late (42) … a last ditch effort. (43) … study now is better than no study at all. There is really (44) … in wasting time over regrets of the past, nor over anxieties for the future. That is surest way (45) … your mental energies.
For (46) … this moment, you can do nothing in either period of time. But you can certainly (47) … the present. So give it the best you have. And remember. Your results can only give you back what you (48) … in. so get down to making a schedule right away. Planning your time is a (49)… .
| 37. | A | private | B | special | C | personal | D | individual |
| 38. | A | at best | B | at the start | C | at the most | D | at variance |
| 39. | A | good | B | well | C | thoroughly | D | much |
| 40. | A | pass | B | take | C | take part | D | fail |
| 41. | A | expensive | B | precious | C | valueless | D | dear |
| 42. | A | to make | B | making | C | to do | D | to take |
| 43. | A | any | B | all | C | some | D | many |
| 44. | A | no problem | B | no idea | C | not sense | D | no point |
| 45. | A | to dissipate | B | dissipating | C | of dissipating | D | dissipated |
| 46. | A | in | B | after | C | at | D | during |
| 47. | A | tackle | B | to handle | C | undertake | D | deal |
| 48. | A | will put in | B | have put in | C | had put in | D | are putting in |
| 49. | A | should | B | needed | C | must | D | obligatory |